[nycbug-talk] Conference Topics Thread

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Pete Wright wrote:

> based on some recent hell i've been through at work could we do a
> lecture titled: DBA's and the SysAdmins who Hate Them
*putting the ex-DBA hat on*: I can just as easily speak about "sysadmins 
and the DBA's who hate them", or "sysadmins and network geeks who hate 
them". The root of the problem is specialization and narrow knowledge of 
certain people (sysadmins, dbas, neteng, etc) - to be a good DBA you need 
to know a bit of sysadmin, and vice versa. Unfortunately, it is hard 
enough to find person who has enough clue to do *his* job. That's why 
people who have wide experience are so much more valued. :)

> One a more serious note, have there been any offers for people to talk
> about RDBMS's?  The postgresql talk was pretty good last year, I'd like
> to see more of that if possible...
It's a BSD conference, so why talk about postgresql? I mean, I can't 
really think of many things in postgresql that are bsd-specific...